Hidden inside bemadden sit bedamned and bemadden, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bedamned and bemadden tie for the highest Scrabble score from bemadden at 14 points. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in bemadden: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bemadden itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bedamned and bemadden, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bemadden produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beadmen, bedeman, and benamed, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bemadden turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damned and demand. For points, the strongest plays are badmen, beamed, and bedamn — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bemadden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended and named. For points, the strongest play is embed — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bemadden produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, bade and band. For points, the strongest plays are beam, bema, and mabe — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bemadden turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, and and bad. For points, the strongest play is bam — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bemadden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in bemadden plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bemadden and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
bemadden is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
bemadden is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bemadden unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bedamned and bemadden, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bemadden earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in bemadden produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.